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Korea (South): On The Brink?

Among other non-academic activities in our contemporary society, all public school children are introduced to vital, emergency lifesaving drills. Fire drills, lock-down drills, shelter-in-place drills and tornado drills these are all common to our students and welcomed by parents and concerned family members.

Asan Medical Center (AMC) has drastically shortened the time required for acute stroke treatment since it operated an emergency medical care system, the hospital said Wednesday (16 August).\r\nIn about 80 percent of strokes, the number one cause of death in a single disease is ischemic strokes (cerebral infarction) that block blood vessels. It is important to puncture the clogged blood vessels as quickly as possible, but most patients do not know or observe pre frontal stroke symptoms, which take them more than three hours to arrive at the hospital.

Kuwait: Kuwait Ministry of Health Issues Guidelines on New Viruses

Kuwait: Kuwait’s Ministry of Health made an administrative decision announcing strict guidelines on how to handle acute respiratory cases, particularly the novel coronavirus (nCoV), which it described as “a dangerous communicable disease”. This came after Saudi Arabia detected 6 new cases of the deadly coronavirus, the health ministry said, raising the number of people infected from the SARS-like virus in the kingdom to 30, half of them fatalities.
Medical staff in emergency and critical condition departments, who may have had contact with those infected, have also been told to receive a checkup at the local disease control

Laos: ASEAN Members Seek Cooperation in Natural Disaster Assistance

Vientiane, Laos: As many as 57 delegates from national disaster management offices of member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) gathered here on Wednesday (5 April) to seek ways for future cooperation in natural disaster assistance.\r\nThe meeting, which is scheduled to run through Thursday (6 April) will inform progress and key issues of priority programs under the working group\'s purview, namely disaster risk assessment, prevention and mitigation, knowledge and innovation management, preparedness and response, and lastly recovery, Director General of the Social Welfare Department of the Lao Ministry of Labor and S

Malaysia: MOH Will Hire More Emergency Medicine Specialists

Kuala Lumpur: The Ministry of Health (MOH) will hire more emergency medicine specialists to treat accident victims and address the shortage of medical specialists at government hospitals. Deputy Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Hilmi Yahaya said that the hiring of more emergency medicine specialists was necessary as Malaysia recorded high number of road accidents annually.
"Malaysia has more than 120 emergency medicine specialists, all of whom are graduates of ‘Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia’ (UKM), ‘Universiti Malaya’ (UM) and ‘Universiti Sains Malaysia’ (USM). "This number is still low and inadequate